World Teachers Day: 5th October
Every year on 5th October teachers across the globe are celebrated by their employers, students, parents, communities and teaching organisations. The day has been observed annually since 1994 as World Teachers’ Day, after the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural…
Ghett Out – Shebada’s in town!
He’s loud, proud and very, very controversial. And now Jamaican comedian and actor Shebada is coming to Cayman. Famed for his eccentric behaviour and larger than life characters, Shebada, real name Keith Ramsey, will be playing to a packed audience…
Man serious after car smash
A man is in a serious condition in hospital after he lost control of his car in George Town. A passenger in the car at the time of the smash miraculously escaped from the mangled wreckage uninjured. Police are investigating…
Man who washed truck naked gets probation
ATTLEBORO, Mass. (AP) — A man who scrubbed his pickup truck in the nude at a Massachusetts car wash has been sentenced to a year of probation. Robert E. Bailey, of Cumberland, R.I., pleaded guilty on Monday to open and…
Jamaica offers economic advice to Greece
Jamaica’s Finance Minister Audley Shaw said Greece should follow the example of the Caribbean nation and restructure the national debt as a first step toward solving its economic crisis. “Start with that debt exchange,” Shaw said yesterday in an interview…
Get ready for Murphy’s Law
Jon Murphy has risen through the ranks of Merseyside Police and is regarded as an expert in serious and organised crime. On Monday, he will bring his knowledge to Cayman, when he heads a specialist unit of UK crime-fighters in…
UCCI receives generous donation from scholarship fund
In an effort to provide educational opportunities for needy and deserving Caymanian students, the founders of the Ironwood Scholarship Fund donated over CI$100,000 to the University College of the Cayman Islands (UCCI). “The Board of Governors of the University College…
UK gov’t orders extradition over honeymoon killing
LONDON (AP) — Britain’s government said Wednesday that a suspect accused of hiring a hit man to kill his wife on their honeymoon in South Africa should be extradited there to face trial. Home Secretary Theresa May approved the extradition…
More than 130,000 gay couples report they’re married
WASHINGTON (AP) — Increasingly visible, the number of gay Americans telling the U.S. census they’re living with same-sex partners nearly doubled in the past decade, to about 650,000 couples. And more than 130,000 recorded partners as husband or wife. Census…
International Day of Older Persons
Message from Minister for Community Affairs and Housing The Hon. Michael Adam International Day of Older Persons At the start of this century, the Caribbean population of older persons (those 60 years and over) was larger than ever before in…
